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Aaron Fernandes was in jail on drug charges when he hatched a plan —over a recorded phone line — to collect COVID relief payments he wasn’t entitled to, prosecutors say. Fernandes, 42, of Plymouth, is accused of plotting with two women to pocket nearly $100,000 in relief payments meant for people struggling to survive financially during the […]